{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20482801","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20482801","state":"District of Columbia","county":"Washington","location_type":"County","file_day":8,"file_month":9,"file_year":1828,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":8,"end_month":9,"end_year":1828,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"National Archives, Washington, D. C.","abstract":"Mary Donoho, a woman of color, was sold to Thomas Waring, who left her in the care of Bayer Jeffreys, \"with directions to give her her freedom upon her earning & paying therefor eighty dollars.\"   She was then sold to Archibald Thompson under the same terms: that she would be allowed to purchase her freedom.  Donoho now asserts that she has been \"hired to several persons successively at three dollars a month, until she has paid as she verily believes, to the said Archibald Thompson, more than Eighty dollars & is now Entitled to her freedom.\"  However, Donoho has been arrested in Washington as a runaway slave, and she fears that Thompson has sold her from jail to Henry Ryan, who may sell her as a slave for life out of the court's jurisdiction.  She seeks an injunction preventing Thompson and Ryan from removing her before her petition for freedom is heard by the court.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Virtually free (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Hiring value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}